This great game proves once again that every game made doesn't have to action,and shouldn't be either.
User Rating: 9.5 | Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords PC
Turn Based Stategy games are pretty rare these days but once again this game shows why some the best games ever made are from that genre.This is,..simply put an great game.It does have some bugs in the retail version,but nothing too bad,and certainly nothing that ruins the game.The game basically is this.You choose a civillization.Expand you influance thoughout the galaxy wether though force,technolgy,or culture and in the end whoever owns almost all of the galaxy,.wins.The game is alot of fun and I actually enjoyed it more than Civilization 4.The tech tree is huge which some complained about,.but com on,.it's strategy game and not suppossed to be for people who don't mind having to think a little.You can and pretty much are encourage to build your own ships.Which even though can be pretty time consuming is fun to me.And the cool part is that stuff you build is carried over to later games for that race so you won't have to make new designs every single game.
My only gripe out the box is the combat is automated and I would have preferred full tactical,.or at least the option for it.
The AI is this game is pretty some of the best around and not all of them cheat as they do in most games to accomplish this either.
I would definately reccomend this game over just about any of the strategy games released around the same time as it such as LOTR-Battle for Middle Earth 2,.which while decent is certainly not better than this.
